Revelers drive past San Francisco City Hall waving rainbow flags and an American flag on Wednesday, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California.

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U.S. House Republicans felt so strongly about the federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman that they spent more than $2 million defending it after the Obama Administration's Justice Department said it would not.

Yet, the GOP reaction to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional was notably muted.